MISSION VIEJO – After a thrilling run through the CIF-Southern Section playoffs, the season came to an abrupt end for the Glendora High School baseball team.

Trabuco Hills (18-13) scored the winning run on a passed ball in the eighth inning to defeat the visiting Tartans (18-10), 3-2, in Friday’s Division 2 quarterfinal game.

Trabuco Hills first baseman Trevor Petersen led off the eighth with a single, Brett DaRe’ walked and a sacrifice bunt moved the runners to second and third.

After an intentional walk to leadoff hitter Adam Vargas to load the bases, the pitch to Kevin Wade got away from Glendora catcher Johnny Juarez for the winning run.

“(It was a) one-run game and somebody was going to walk off disappointed, and obviously there were a lot of down faces (for us),” Glendora coach Dan Henley said.

“They battled and I know competitors don’t like to hear about moral victories, but they (his team) accomplished a lot this year.”

The Glendora defense came up big in the sixth and seventh innings to thwart the Mustangs. A clutch double play ended the sixth with runners on first and second. In the seventh, relief pitcher Eric Flores made a twisting grab at a ball up the middle to end the inning.

After one out in the eighth, Tartans junior shortstop Martin Gallegos (2 for 3) doubled down the left-field line but was left stranded.

Leading the way for Glendora, which won a CIF-SS title in 2010, were seniors Donovan Holmes (3 for 4, two runs scored, double) and Wyatt Wood (3 for 3, two RBIs).

Wood, who is headed to Azusa Pacific University, reflected on this season’s team.

“This is the best team I’ve played with in a long time,” Wood said. “These guys wanted more than any other team I played with.”

Glendora scored in the first on a single by Wood that brought home Holmes, but the Mustangs answered with two runs in the second, to take a 2-1 lead.

The Tartans tied it, 2-2, in the third on another single by Woods that drove in Holmes.

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